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Image credit: ESO/A. Ghizzi Panizza (www.albertoghizzipanizza.com) Two systems I know pretty well, Apache BookKeeper and Apache Kafka, were designed in the era of the spinning disk, the hard-drive or
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For a hot minute, it looked like BlackBerry might control the smartphone market. They got there first, figuring out how to use the existing data network to put email in users’ hands. Sure, it all came
This article contains details specific to United States (US) investors . It does not apply to non-US investors . Tax-efficient fund placement is an issue facing investors holding assets in multiple ac
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Learn the basics of Terraform in this step-by-step tutorial of how to deploy a cluster of web servers and a load balancer on AWS Published in Gruntwork · 40 min read · Sep 29, 2016 Update, November 17
More than 40 leading scientists have resigned en masse from the editorial board of a top science journal in protest at what they describe as the “greed” of publishing giant Elsevier. The entire academ
繁體中文版請按這裡 This article is translated from the original Chinese edition . In the world of databases, Redis stands out as unique. Instead of the usual tables or documents that are the central focus of m
In the Soviet Union, the government regulated almost every aspect of life. Censors decided which books could be published. Comedians had to submit material for approval before they could step behind a
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